Switchfoot’s ‘songs of hope’

Twenty years on, Switchfoot continues to find success in two musical worlds, secular and Christian, even while some fans have wanted the band to choose one or the other. “We’ve taken fire from both sides,” says guitarist Drew Shirley. “Now, the way I like to say it in a sentence is that Christianity is a faith, not a genre of music… The Christian music tag, we have shied away from it, only because of wanting to help people properly understand our mission, which is to sing songs of hope to the masses…”